Healthy reminder that cyberpunk is now and that one should start living it instead of fantasizing like some cyberhipster; >http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-there-wont-be-a-third-.html
Circumventing surveillance in meatspace:
DIYing your own IRhat; Infra Red Invisible Mask (embed) Dress like a more fashionable juggalo; http://cvdazzle.com Build your own stealth-wear out of Mylar blankets; http://ahprojects.com/projects/stealth-wear
Encrypting your communications on the grid:
Off-the-record messaging; https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ Private XMPP (Jabber) chat with forced encryption; http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Securing_XMPP TOX; http://tox.im Encrypt email with GPG; http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/guides.html
EFF fights for your freedom!
Use HTTPS Everywhere by default; https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Find out how vulnerable you really are; https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Search engines that respect your freedoms:
Still swapping dead presidents? My sides are in orbit, chummer.
Cryptocurrencies; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency
Hierarchical trust systems are fundamentally a scam.
SSL root certificates, e.g., Verisgn, Comodo, Entrust -- corporations that have placed themselves the top of the pyramid, but why do you trust them, /g/?
mfw $1500 so a corporate fatcat can vouch for your identity for a year; https://www.symantec.com/page.jsp?id=compare-ssl-certificates
Self sign your own certificates. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenSSL DNS; ICANN has a monopoly on the domain name system, but why? So they can release stupid vanity domains like .donut and .shoes? Top fucking lel. EU calls for cozy ICANN relations with US to end; http://www.itworldcanada.com/post/eu-calls-for-icanns-close-relationship-with-u-s-to-end Use ORSN; http://www.orsn.org/en/tech/ ; DNSCrypt: http://www.opendns.com/about/innovations/dnscrypt/; or Namecoin
Latest news from the spit jockeys:
US Department of Justice pushing to make it easier for piggies to get warrants to hack your box. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/03/27/doj-pushes-to-expand-hacking-abilities-against-cyber-criminals US Judge rules that IP addresses aren't necessarily people. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/judge-to-porn-trolls-ip-addresses-arent-people/ DMCA takedown notices surge over 700,000% in four years: http://torrentfreak.com/google-takedown-notices-surge-140325/ Bionic Olympics in 2016: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26766095
Build a meshnet, or a darknet. The only truly free networks are the ones that everyone can own a piece of. Active alt-nets:
i2p; https://geti2p.net/en/ cjdns; http://cjdns.info/ Tor; https://www.torproject.org/ OpenLibernet; http://www.openlibernet.org/ FreeNet; https://freenetproject.org/ Mesh network technology: olsrd; http://www.olsr.org/ B.A.T.M.A.N. and B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced; http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki bmx6; http://bmx6.net/projects/bmx6 Build your own GSM cellphone network:kk http://openbts.org/
For your smartphone:
Paranoid Android Home & Infographics; http://paranoidandroid.co/ ; https://imgur.com/a/bbmtV Cyanogenmod Home & Infographics; http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ ; https://imgur.com/a/YR2yU Replicant ; http://www.replicant.us/ f-droid for FOSS applications; https://f-droid.org/ Freedom-respecting search; https://startpage.com/app/android/startpage.apk XPosed Framework w/ XPrivacy Module; http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer ; http://repo.xposed.info/module/biz.bokhorst.xprivacy OpenStreetMaps: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android ; https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.osmand.plus Faraday cage for your phone; https://offpocket.com/
Resources and communities: IRC:
#/g/punk on irc.rizon.net /g/punk TOX groupchat; add, 6B5D0E0CF5F4E599F7E6CF3009F AE0643F6F951E582023AAABBF6D7919 2B2F6D5D9C67C4BF57
and message, "invite" BBS:
telnet plbbs2.synchro.net telnet gopher.su 1234 ssh new@gopher.su telnet dorsal.tk 2323 (IPv4) telnet dogma.dorsal.tk 2323 (IPv6) More; http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html Public UNIX systems: http://sdf.org/ Required reading: 2600 Mondo 2000 Phrack; http://www.phrack.org/issues.html Textfiles; http://textfiles.com/ The Jargon File; http://www.catb.org/jargon/ Anon's Library: http://pastebin.com/qpHhTxfK Cybermedia: The Cyberadio; http://www.cyberadio.pw/ Demoscene message board; https://www.pouet.net/ Streaming Demoscene music; https://scenemusic.net/demovibes/ ANSI art archive; http://sixteencolors.net/ Et cetera: Assembly programming resources; http://www.cheapersunglasses.com/asm.html WWW->Gopher Bridge; http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ Modify your wetware; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic http://www.gwern.net/
Finding out more:
http://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Cyberpunk http://cyberlife.neocities.org/